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  "name": "cigprices.com work-minutes index",
  "description": "Minutes of work at the statutory gross hourly minimum wage needed to buy a pack of 20 Marlboro, by country.",
  "source": "https://cigprices.com/en/minutes-de-travail",
  "attribution": "Source : cigprices.com",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-04",
  "wages_checked": "2026-10-31",
  "methodology": "minutes = pack price / hourly minimum wage x 60. A monthly minimum wage is converted with amount x payments per year / (legal weekly hours x 52). Countries without a statutory national minimum wage are excluded, not given a substitute figure.",
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      "source": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Minimum_wage_statistics"
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      "country_code": "AT",
      "source": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Minimum_wage_statistics"
    },
    {
      "country_code": "CH",
      "source": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Minimum_wage_statistics"
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